RPC IV.2, 3111 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3111 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Aelius Glykonianos (strategos)
Issue Issue 1
Dating c. 180–182
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (short beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ Α ΓΛΥΚΩΝΙΑΝοΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕοΚοΡΩΝ
Reverse design Asclepius standing on base, facing, holding serpent-staff; between two centaurs moving outwards, heads inwards, each centaur holding long torch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 45 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference Weisser 1170
Specimens 5 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     V: GR 16457 (Medaillon) von Fritze, Pergamon, p. 48, pl. V.9 (rev.)
2 2     ✸ L: 1979-1-1-1604 vA 7508 = Kraft, p. 187, pl. 88.14a = Weisser 1170, pl. 20
3 3     Kroll, Agora 878, pl. 29 = F. Kleiner, Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora (Princeton, 1975), fig. 25, obverse lightly double struck
4 4     P: 1325 (Medaillon) SNG 2165 = W. Wroth, NC 1882, p. 43, pl. II.10 (rev.), tooled, reverse legend: ΝΕΩΚοΡΩΝ
5 5     Numismatic Fine Arts 5 (23/02/1978), 316